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40. Flint Board of Education Committee of Inquiry Report

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RECOMMENDATIONS
The Committee of Inquiry has reviewed earlier
studies and has investigated anew potential demands and
opportunities for post-high school study in the Flint Metro­politan
Area. Based on its findings herein recorded, the
Committee offers several suggestions and specific recommenda­tions,
together with certain elaborations and interpretations
which it believes are supported by its findings.
The Committee finds that educational needs in the
area are currently great and are increasing, but suggests that
the satisfaction of the unmet needs is not exclusively a local
responsibility. The Committee finds that although education­ally
sound and substantial, present opportunities for college
study, especially at the lower division level, are limited in
scope, and that the overall program is wanting both in emphases
and in diversification. Largely because of the organizational
pattern the program fails to serve the whole of the seven­county
area (Genesee and adjacent counties).
The Committee is pleased with the progress which
has been made cooperatively by the Flint Community Junior
College and The University of Michigan Senior College, yet
it is convinced that a hyphenated four-year program does not
and cannot adequately serve the educational needs of the seven­county
area. It suggests that the needs for a four-year col­lege
are real and urgent and recommends the immediate estab­lishment
of such a college as the first in a series of steps
leading to the enlargement, the improvement, and the diversi­ficiation
of post-high school opportunities in the seven-county
area. To implement its findings and conclusions the Committee
respectfully submits herewith several specific recommendations.
I. That the Flint Board of Education speaking for the Flint
community, or the Flint Board of Education in conjunction
with other public agencies, private organizations, and
public-minded individuals invite the Regents of The Uni­versity
of Michigan to conduct in Flint a unified four­year
college program of studies.

RECOMMENDATIONS
The Committee of Inquiry has reviewed earlier
studies and has investigated anew potential demands and
opportunities for post-high school study in the Flint Metro­politan
Area. Based on its findings herein recorded, the
Committee offers several suggestions and specific recommenda­tions,
together with certain elaborations and interpretations
which it believes are supported by its findings.
The Committee finds that educational needs in the
area are currently great and are increasing, but suggests that
the satisfaction of the unmet needs is not exclusively a local
responsibility. The Committee finds that although education­ally
sound and substantial, present opportunities for college
study, especially at the lower division level, are limited in
scope, and that the overall program is wanting both in emphases
and in diversification. Largely because of the organizational
pattern the program fails to serve the whole of the seven­county
area (Genesee and adjacent counties).
The Committee is pleased with the progress which
has been made cooperatively by the Flint Community Junior
College and The University of Michigan Senior College, yet
it is convinced that a hyphenated four-year program does not
and cannot adequately serve the educational needs of the seven­county
area. It suggests that the needs for a four-year col­lege
are real and urgent and recommends the immediate estab­lishment
of such a college as the first in a series of steps
leading to the enlargement, the improvement, and the diversi­ficiation
of post-high school opportunities in the seven-county
area. To implement its findings and conclusions the Committee
respectfully submits herewith several specific recommendations.
I. That the Flint Board of Education speaking for the Flint
community, or the Flint Board of Education in conjunction
with other public agencies, private organizations, and
public-minded individuals invite the Regents of The Uni­versity
of Michigan to conduct in Flint a unified four­year
college program of studies.